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Modelling ply failure
Stephanie Miot
First matrix
crack
Fibre failure
initiation
Preliminaries
- 2 stiffeners
• Dimensions: 200
20 mm x 140 mm, 1600 mm
m long, 4 mm thick
• Lay-up: (02, -45
452, 902, 452)S
• Material: UD carbon / epoxy T800/M18
T300/M18 T800/M18
Elasticity coefficients
E1 170 GPa 192
92 GPa
E2 9 GPa 15 GPa
ν12 0.34 0.3
0.34
G12 4.8 GPa 5.6 GPa
G13 4.8 GPa 5.6 GPa
G23 4.5 GPa 4.9 GPa
Hashin’s failure criteria coefficients
XT 2050 MPa 2240
0 MPa
XC 1200 MPa 1230
0 MPa
YT 62 MPa 71 MPa
YC 190 MPa 210
0 MPa
SL 81 MPa 90 MPa
ST 81 MPa 90 MPa
Fracture toughnesses
Long. tensile fracture
95 kJ/m² 105
5 kJ/m²
kJ/m
energy: Gftc
Long. compressive
103 kJ/m² 108 kJ/m²
fracture energy: Gfcc
Trans. tensile fracture
0.2 kJ/m² 0.2 kJ/m²
energy: Gmtc
Trans. compressive
0.2 kJ/m² 0.2 kJ/m²
fracture energy: Gmcc
f. Click Suboptions and select Damage Stabilization. Specify the value of the
viscosity coefficient for each failure mode: 1e-4.
1e
a. Click the Create Composite Layup icon . Name the new lay
lay-up
definition: Skin lay-up.. Set the Initial ply count at 6 and select the Element
Type: Continuum Shell.
Shell Click Continue...
b. In the Edit Composite Layup dialog box, define the Layup orientation. Select
Definition: Coordinate system.
system Click the Select CSYS icon to select
Datum csys-1. Click OK to go back to the composite lay-up
up editor.
c. Accept the default selection for the Normal direction: Axis 3 and the
Stacking Direction: Element direction 3.
3
f. Double-click the Element Relative Thickness button and set the relative
thickness of each ply at 0.25.
0.
Note: The sum of the relative thicknesses does not need to be equal to 1. The
result will be automatically normalised by Abaqus.
i. Use the options available in the Display tab to check the orientation of the
lay-up. Then click OK to create the new lay-up.
a. Go into the Mesh Module and select the Part: Skin in the menu bar.
b. Click the Assign Element Type icon . Select the entire part. In the
Element Type dialog box, select Family: Continuum Shell and accept the
other default selections.
c. Click the Seed Part icon . Set the approximate global size at 30 mm.
f. Check that the stacking direction is correct. Click the Assign Stack Direction
icon and select the top face of the skin to define the reference
orientation.
a. Select the Part: Stiffener in the menu bar or right click Stiffener in the model
tree and select Make Current.
Current
d. In the menu bar, select Object: Assembly to visualise the mesh of the
different instances.
c. In the Edit Step dialog box, toggle on Nlgeom. In the Incrementation tab,
define the Maximum
aximum number of increments: 100 000 and the Increment
size: Initial: 0.01, Minimum: 1e-9, Maximum: 0.1. Click OK.
b. In the Edit Field Output Request dialog box, select Domain: Set: Skin-1.All.
Then select Frequency: Evenly spaced time intervals and set Interval: 10.
c. In the Output Variables list, expand the Stresses list and toggle on the
variable S,, then expand the Failure/Fracture list and toggle on the variables
DAMAGEFT, DAMAGEF
DAMAGEFC, DAMAGEMT, DAMAGEMC,, HSNFTCRT,
HSNFCCRT, HSNMTCRT
HSNMTCRT, and HSNMCCRT. Finally, expand the
State/Field/User/Time list and toggle on the variable STATUS.
e. Click the Field Output Manager icon . Select the second field output
requests F-Output-2 created in Step-1 and click Copy...
f. Rename the new field output request: F-Output-3 and click OK.
OK In the Field
Output Requests Manager,
Manager F-Output-3 is selected. Click Edit...
g. Modify the selection of the Domain: Set: Stiffener-1.All.. Then modify the
specification of the layered section points: 1, 2, 3, 4. Click OK.
a. Go into the Interaction Module. Click the Create Reference Point icon
c. Click the Create Constraint icon . Accept the default name and select
Coupling. Click Continue...
e. In the Edit Constraint dialog box, accept the default selections for the
Coupling type: Kinematic and the Constrained degrees of freedom: All.
A
Click OK.
c. Select the region from the list of eligible Sets: BC-1.. Toggle on U1, U2 and
U3. Click OK.
e. Select the reference point RP-1 then specify the applied displacements:
U2 = 14 mm and U3 = -70
- mm. Click OK.
c. In the Edit Job dialog box, open the tab: Parallelization.. Toggle On Use
multiple processors and set the number of processors at 4.. Accept the other
default selections and click OK. Then submit the job: Panel01.
a. When the job submission has been completed, in the Job Manager dialog
box, click Results or open Panel01.odb in the Visualization Module.
Module
c. In the Create Display Group dialog box, select Part instances: SKIN-1.
Click the Replace icon then click Dismiss.
e. Click the Field Output Dialog icon or click Result → Field Output.
Output
f. In the Field Output dialog box, in the Primary Variable tab, select the
Output Variable: HSNFTCRT.
HSNFTCRT Click Apply then click Section Points..
g. In the Section Points dialog box, click Selection method: Plies and select
the ply Skin - ply 0 - 1.. Click Apply.
You can then visualise the fibre failure prediction in the 0° ply.
i. In the Field Output dialog box, select the Output Variable: DAMAGEMT
DAMAGE to
visualise the matrix failure propagation. In the Section Points dialog box,
select the ply Skin - ply 90-1. Then select Skin - ply -45.. You can observe
the propagation of the matrix damage in the different plies.
plies
2
1
1
2
k. Click the Common Options icon and select Visible Edges: Feature
edges. Click OK.
l. In the Field Output dialog box, select the Output Variable: DAMAGEFT.
DAMAGE In
the Section Points dialog box, select the ply SRO - ply 0. Click Apply.
Select various variables and section points to plot the numerical predictions
for the damage initiation and propagation in different plies.
n. In the XY Data from ODB Field Output dialog box, in the Variables tab,
select Position: Unique Nodal.
Nodal In the variables list, expand RF: Reaction
force and toggle on Magnitude,
Magnitude then expand U: Spatial displacement and
toggle on Magnitude.. In the Elements/Nodes tab, select Method: Node
sets: ASSEMBLY_CONSTRAINT-2_REFERENCE_POINT.
ASSEMBLY_CONSTRAINT . Click Save. A
warning message is displayed. Click OK. Then click Dismiss.
r. Double-click
click the chart. In the Chart Options dialog box, toggle off Fill then
click Dismiss. Double-click
click the X axis. In the Axis Options dialog box, in the
Title tab, click the Font icon. Set the size at 24 and click OK.. In the Axes tab,
click the Font icon
on and set the size at 18.